The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1887-11-17

An advertisement in a Georgia paper
for a man to watch store in Tampa.
Fla, during the yellow fever epidemic,
was answered by upward of score OF
persons.
There are 400 school districts in
Vermont which have less than dozen
regular scholars apiece, and the aver
sgs pay. of teachers is less than in any
other northern State.
The building of a narrow-gauge road
to connect the city Of Deadwood, d.
T., with outlying mining camps, 10
said to he contemplated by q number
of Deadwood capitalists.
The railroads have decided to fight
the Rail, Dad and Warehouse Commis-
sioners on the question Of reduction
IF rates ordered on coal and other ar
ticles Chicago Journal, Oct ~.
A number Of farmers in Pope county,
ILL.,. who have occupied their lands for
a quarter of a century, have been
ousted by ejectment suits brought
by nonresident claimants.--Chicago
Times.
The Kansas drug clerk Stewart, who
was sentenced TO seventeen years inn
prisonment and $40. 900 fine. for SELL
ing beer, has had the penalty finally
reduced to six months imprisonment
and 5000 fine.
Owing to struggle for supremacy
between two factions, ten shares Of
stock in the st. Joseph county Ma
tional Bank OF Kalamazoo, Mich, val
ued at 81 300, were sold at public auc-
tion for $44, $50.
A Michigan girl surprised thief in
the barn and chased him with pitch
fork until he dropped the harness he
had stolen, It is reported that she is
receiving an average Of fifteen offors Of
marriage week.
Harper's Bszar declares that Miss
Rose Clayeland's salary as teacher in
the high class school for young ladies
in New York is the highest salary paid
to any American woman, except the
stars of the stage.
1t is officially announced that the
Niger districts in West Africa, includ-
ing the coast line between Lagos and
the western bank Of the Rio del Rey
and the Niger Company's land, are un-
der British protection.
The public debt of Canada July 1,
1855, was s264, ,703, COY, but some $780,
600, 900 has been added to the amount
since that time. The amount to each
inhab'tant is about 500, and it is about
13 cents ON each acre of land.
A London dispatch says there are
891 freshmen at Cambridge this year,
as against 913 last October. Trinity
College has 1871. st. John is second
with seventy-seven, and Jesus, Gains
and Trinity have each ever sixty.
George Washington Augustus Jones,
of Mississippi. has given evidence Of
the sincerity Of his devotion to Presi.
dent Cleveland by presenting him with
the left hind feot of a graveyard rab-
bit killed in the dark of the moon. "
The original Bartlett pear trees,
named after Enoch Bartlett. still stand
on his grounds, near Boston. and are
over fifty years old. Twenty years
ago new top WAS grated upon these
old trees, and they still bear fine fruit.
1t ia said that the net profits Of the
Petit journal, the most extensively
circulated paper in the world, are now
over S800,0Oo year 1t affords EN-
ployment to over IL, 900 Parisians, and
is owned and run on the cooperative Q
plan.
A railway postal clerk was killed OH
the Missouri Pacific, and the company
set up in its defense that inasmuch as
he was net a passenger his heirs could
not claim damages. The courts decide
that the road is liable, and must pay
Sc, 900.
Moody and Sankey have decided not
to engage in tabernacle work any more,
except occasionally. The reason they
give for making this decision is that
experience shows that better results
can be accomplished by laboring di-
rectly with the churches.